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Why Schools Should Teach Philosophy, Even to Little Kids (Encore Episode)
It’s important to nurture philosophical thinking in kids throughout school and college. So argues a philosophy professor who wrote a book that highli…
2 years, 6 months ago
How AI Could Spark Fundamental Shifts in Education
The rise of generative AI technology such as ChatGPT could rapidly reshape knowledge work in the next few years. A trio of education researchers rece…
2 years, 6 months ago
Why a New Teaching Approach is Going Viral on Social Media
When a professor’s research showed that standard methods of teaching problem-solving weren’t working, he set out to figure out what led to more stude…
2 years, 6 months ago
Is It Time to Rethink the Traditional Grading System? (Encore Episode)
More educators are wondering whether the grading system hinders many students rather than helps them learn. For this week’s podcast, we’re rebroadcas…
2 years, 7 months ago
What a Popular TikTok Channel Reveals About the Stress of College Admissions
It’s statistically harder to get into a selective college these days, and who gets in and why can feel like a mystery. So students are turning to Tik…
2 years, 7 months ago
How Teaching Should Change, According to a Nobel-Prize-Winning Physicist
Since winning the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001, Carl Wieman has devoted the bulk of his energies to trying to improve teaching. That has led him t…
2 years, 7 months ago
How to Help Students Avoid Getting Duped Online — and by AI Chatbots
Students these days are terrible at sorting facts from misinformation online and on social media. But they can improve with just a few simple strateg…
2 years, 7 months ago
How to Encourage Viewpoint Diversity in Classrooms
Can educators continue to teach troubling but worthwhile texts in this time of polarization and culture wars? And how can instructors make classrooms…
2 years, 8 months ago
Helping Students Think With Their Whole Bodies
What if Rodin’s famous sculpture of the thinking man sitting holding his chin gives us the wrong idea about how people think? A growing body of resea…
2 years, 8 months ago
Is VR the Next Frontier in the School Choice Movement?
Could cutting-edge virtual reality tech help to spread classical education models and alternatives to traditional public schools? That’s what one pro…
2 years, 8 months ago